I'm a Ph.D. student in economics, using some of the Wikimedia data in my research. My question is whether it's possible to get the data on Wikipedia pageviews by country and article category? Currently the Wikimedia Foundation provides the aggregate data on pageviews by country and the less aggregate data on pageviews by article, but it looks that there is no way to find out, for example, the pageviews of math articles in India.

More specifically, my questions are:

1) If is it possible in some way to extract the information on pageviews by country and subject area from your publicly available data? The amount of data currently available is already vast, and I could miss it.

2) If it is not possible, then how can I persuade you into making this data available? I'm going to argue that the data can be made available without losing confidentiality by using either first IP numbers or by publishing only the country of the user, as well as aggregating by the category.

I'm looking forward to hear from you. I'm sure that many social scientists will be also glad to use the opportunity to produce more interesting and policy-relevant research.